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to see how he or she reacts directly to any political challenge for example in the case with angela merkel days they say if you know if you can observe her directly over the period of eight years wouldn't that be more important than what really shake her by and large what we're trying to understand is what are the emotional levers what are the buttons that push this person to what degree is this person under full rational control to what degree is this person scarred by painful experiences may i give an example with saddam hussein absolutely go have i assessed him from my base at george washington university and one of the things i was very distressed by was that he was being called the madman of the middle east and i was really couldn't quite concerned that this misdiagnoses from my point of view was going to lead to really flawed decision making because he was a rational political cookie later who often miscalculated for two reasons. one he had a very ethnocentric view of the world didn't really understand the west but more importantly he was surrounded by a group of sycophants who toes
to see how he or she reacts directly to any political challenge for example in the case with angela merkel days they say if you know if you can observe her directly over the period of eight years wouldn't that be more important than what really shake her by and large what we're trying to understand is what are the emotional levers what are the buttons that push this person to what degree is this person under full rational control to what degree is this person scarred by painful experiences may...
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german chancellor merkel's but the idea of more sanctions from moscow despite the country's business leaders are urging him not to follow washington's lead their point is that the u.s. doesn't have relatively much to lose its trade with russia reached only twenty seven billion dollars last year while the figure for europe is four hundred ten billion according to government and business consultant crystal horst or any further restrictions will hurt all sides. nobody in the game can afford any of these things since they will hurt both germany for example is the biggest part of russia and russia is the biggest energy part of the whole europe so what's the use of anything since washington's idea in the europeans are not very much for that and that means that there is a disquiet now a disagreement between the u.s. and the european union even if they come up with the same kind of sanctions right now. how far is the west ready to go well for more on the odds of broader economic sanctions been imposed check out r.t. dot com we'll try and find some answers for you. according cairo sentenced a
german chancellor merkel's but the idea of more sanctions from moscow despite the country's business leaders are urging him not to follow washington's lead their point is that the u.s. doesn't have relatively much to lose its trade with russia reached only twenty seven billion dollars last year while the figure for europe is four hundred ten billion according to government and business consultant crystal horst or any further restrictions will hurt all sides. nobody in the game can afford any of...
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against russia german chancellor angela merkel and his prime minister shinzo which together in berlin this week both declaring industrial powers would unite together on the approach to sanctions this follows president obama's visit to japan where he reaffirmed his support in its rao audience with china meanwhile moscow house arrest and to retaliate against foreign energy companies if sanctions are heightened but if the german and japanese leaders all chill on between punishing russia offer what they see as the a low for addicts of carmina on the protection of their economies especially and supplies from russia so first of all let's get to the f. he said to all of it all going to go to where our correspondent peter all of us is waiting for us so peter tell me you obviously we can see that what is the feeling there amongst the the business community in particular. well the business community of given anglo-american a clear message and that message is no further sanctions we've heard in the past week from some of the real heavyweights in the german corporate world the likes of be a s.f.
against russia german chancellor angela merkel and his prime minister shinzo which together in berlin this week both declaring industrial powers would unite together on the approach to sanctions this follows president obama's visit to japan where he reaffirmed his support in its rao audience with china meanwhile moscow house arrest and to retaliate against foreign energy companies if sanctions are heightened but if the german and japanese leaders all chill on between punishing russia offer what...
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since president obama spoke early after his meeting with german chancellor angela merkel and basically dismissed the whole protest against here the sponsor and in controlled by russia and put the responsibility for the escalation on moscow alone president obama also showed full support for kiev's crackdown on the protests in the east of ukraine he called it a move to restore order. can the washington d.c. we'll be tracking the calls all the ongoing developments in southeastern ukraine throughout the night here on our t.v. coming up after the break britain's health service is running a financial fever we are warning to the government about how cuts could be putting lives at risk. middle east. peace process. to build a new. mission to teach me. to care about. why you should care. of the morning or in the u.k. you know britain's national health service could find itself on the cash flow critical list as soon as next year a leading health care think tank says the government urgently needs to inject extra cash but instead leaders are committed to cuts in all of the same some twenty billion
since president obama spoke early after his meeting with german chancellor angela merkel and basically dismissed the whole protest against here the sponsor and in controlled by russia and put the responsibility for the escalation on moscow alone president obama also showed full support for kiev's crackdown on the protests in the east of ukraine he called it a move to restore order. can the washington d.c. we'll be tracking the calls all the ongoing developments in southeastern ukraine...
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yes president obama spoke early after his meeting with german chancellor angela merkel and basically dismissed the whole protest against here that sponsored and controlled by russia and put the responsibility for the escalation on moscow alone president obama also tried for support for kiev crackdown on the protests in the east of ukraine he called it a move to restore order. political analysts in the province joins us now live for some more comment on know what's going on in syria more broadly as well hi there thanks for being with us a lot of denouncement as we've been hearing there from the west and from washington about what's gone on since friday particularly but stopping short of actually mentioning the people actually thought responsible for carrying it out why do you think. well that's because those are the people that are being sponsored by the west it's very simple. their radicals are able and allowed to do whatever they want . when it comes to condoms citizens trying to just protect their rights equal rights. and those are the ones that are supposedly instigating the viole
yes president obama spoke early after his meeting with german chancellor angela merkel and basically dismissed the whole protest against here that sponsored and controlled by russia and put the responsibility for the escalation on moscow alone president obama also tried for support for kiev crackdown on the protests in the east of ukraine he called it a move to restore order. political analysts in the province joins us now live for some more comment on know what's going on in syria more broadly...
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since president obama spoke early after his meeting with german chancellor angela merkel and basically dismissed the whole protest against cuba sponsored and controlled by russia and put the responsibility for the escalation on moscow alone president obama also showed full support for keeps crackdown on the protests in the east of ukraine he called it a move to restore order now there's further fighting in eastern ukraine on the army's attack to the city of qom a tourist which is one of the hot bads events a key of sentiment gunshots can be heard in several areas as armored personnel carriers roll through the city. the latest reports say the army has managed to control most of the city with and some i don forces keeping hold of just one central square also at least three people are thought to have been killed in the fighting our disposal here is in the area. well the ukrainian military is evonne sink further into the town of qana tosk we're hearing that they're trying to reach the city center this is information that eyewitnesses have been telling us as well as kids interior minister h
since president obama spoke early after his meeting with german chancellor angela merkel and basically dismissed the whole protest against cuba sponsored and controlled by russia and put the responsibility for the escalation on moscow alone president obama also showed full support for keeps crackdown on the protests in the east of ukraine he called it a move to restore order now there's further fighting in eastern ukraine on the army's attack to the city of qom a tourist which is one of the hot...
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throughout this process president obama spoke early after his meeting with german chancellor angela merkel and basically dismissed the whole protest against cuba sponsored and controlled by russia and put the responsibility for the escalation on moscow alone president obama also showed full support for key its crackdown on the protests in the east of ukraine he called it a move to restore order at a national relations economic marks a boat from moscow state university believes western powers are forgetting that they were the ones to open the spend or spock's. they will continue to blame russia as being responsible for this for destabilizing the situation in the ukraine by their view they had a right to destabilize the situation in ukraine a few months ago and helped bring this puts regime to power with the your oh my don riots but now russia although there is no evidence they claim has no right to destabilize the situation in the rest of these radicals have not been stopped by the government because they are doing the business of this government these brownshirts paramilitaries are the onl
throughout this process president obama spoke early after his meeting with german chancellor angela merkel and basically dismissed the whole protest against cuba sponsored and controlled by russia and put the responsibility for the escalation on moscow alone president obama also showed full support for key its crackdown on the protests in the east of ukraine he called it a move to restore order at a national relations economic marks a boat from moscow state university believes western powers...
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merkel has great fear of of russia. it's understandable perhaps given her background in east germany under the soviet times but. there are now in this escalation to happen and this is probably the most dangerous period we've faced. since the end of world war two in terms of world peace and it's it's dangerous because they're playing on a profile in my view to be akutan with the pinprick sanctions to escalate in a way that enraged him and enrages the people around him and in moscow so hopefully there's the openness and then the psychological warfare department at the pentagon and elsewhere to get put into ben began making real mistakes and when he does that in a state of reach one's judgment is not often the best and misstep and our very briefly if you can we're getting we're guessing pictures from i.d.s. and now the latest ten hours of violence that and looks like the situation has escalating that dramatically what kind of reaction can you expect on this right now on the odessa situation per se well. this is an extremel
merkel has great fear of of russia. it's understandable perhaps given her background in east germany under the soviet times but. there are now in this escalation to happen and this is probably the most dangerous period we've faced. since the end of world war two in terms of world peace and it's it's dangerous because they're playing on a profile in my view to be akutan with the pinprick sanctions to escalate in a way that enraged him and enrages the people around him and in moscow so hopefully...
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of the right to collect information i just see and google merkel going to the us to pick up the new instructions. the chancellor has come in full rebuke at home for not pushing to allow edward snowden to give testimony at an investigation into n.s.a. activity in person her critics saying that she's looking to protect the image of the us this is merkel's visit won't just be watched closely in germany many in europe are angry that no leader really stood up to the actions of the u.s. in the aftermath of snowden's revelations. i think the single most proof of the cowardice of governments and their under billionaires to actually tackled is in a meaningful way despite what they would say publicly was when when the. european countries closed their airspace and forced the year the year. the president the plane over. to learned in austria on a hunch or suspicion that edward snowden was on board trid is set to play a major role in the talks negotiations are still ongoing over the transatlantic trade and investment partnership or t.t.p. which could see an easing of current take restrictions on
of the right to collect information i just see and google merkel going to the us to pick up the new instructions. the chancellor has come in full rebuke at home for not pushing to allow edward snowden to give testimony at an investigation into n.s.a. activity in person her critics saying that she's looking to protect the image of the us this is merkel's visit won't just be watched closely in germany many in europe are angry that no leader really stood up to the actions of the u.s. in the...
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had been surveilling merkel's phone calls and. email communications through her cell phone there's no doubt the tensions still exist between merkel and obama over the issue so is unlikely to carry any weight in their conversation to discuss this visit i was joined earlier by a whole group holger stark he's a senior washington correspondent for der spiegel and the author of a new book the n.s.a. complex i first asked him to describe the tensions surrounding this visit. as a deep disappointment on miracles and not so much about the fact that she's been targeted she see this as a part of professional business it's how president obama handled this affair last summer when the first snowden documents came out michael send a delegation to washington to find out what really had happened in germany and those people came back and so we got the assurance that there has been nothing done against german interests no german law has been broken and they believe that americans chief of staff stood in front of the cameras and said there is no such
had been surveilling merkel's phone calls and. email communications through her cell phone there's no doubt the tensions still exist between merkel and obama over the issue so is unlikely to carry any weight in their conversation to discuss this visit i was joined earlier by a whole group holger stark he's a senior washington correspondent for der spiegel and the author of a new book the n.s.a. complex i first asked him to describe the tensions surrounding this visit. as a deep disappointment...
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all right well german chancellor angela merkel is making her first visit to washington d.c. since two thousand and eleven she's arriving to the nation's capital today and will be meeting with president obama early tomorrow for a lunch meeting focused on international and economic issues this will be the first meeting between the two leaders since the news broke last october that the n.s.a. had been surveilling merkel's phone calls and e-mail communications through her cell phone there's no doubt that tensions still exist between. marcal and obama over the issue so is unlikely to carry any weight in the conversation joining me to discuss what we can expect is holger stark is the senior washington correspondent for der spiegel and the author of a new book the n.s.a. complex over thanks for joining me i have so i want to first rewind back to october when the story first broke it was quite a big deal we saw germany do a number of things in the aftermath everything from call president obama have a personal phone call to submit a list of questions that they demanded answers to and
all right well german chancellor angela merkel is making her first visit to washington d.c. since two thousand and eleven she's arriving to the nation's capital today and will be meeting with president obama early tomorrow for a lunch meeting focused on international and economic issues this will be the first meeting between the two leaders since the news broke last october that the n.s.a. had been surveilling merkel's phone calls and e-mail communications through her cell phone there's no...
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vladimir putin discussed the ongoing ukrainian crisis over the phone with the german chancellor angela merkel has requested russia's help in efforts to the release the. observers who are being detained in eastern ukraine meanwhile ukraine's state security and special forces have held military drills in the capital under the cover of night armored vehicles were seen passing through the streets of kiev armed men were reportedly spotted entering the parliament building but despite this the country's defense ministry deny is the government took part in any operation this comes after ukraine's interim prime minister admitted the government is unable to hold the rest that's been overwhelming in the country's southeast and government buildings in more than a dozen cities there remain under the control of pro autonomy actually bit off policy eight hundred restive region for. more and more local administration buildings and police stations in the south and east of the country are being taken over the city of gloucester where i am is just the latest what's strange is that people walk past these barrica
vladimir putin discussed the ongoing ukrainian crisis over the phone with the german chancellor angela merkel has requested russia's help in efforts to the release the. observers who are being detained in eastern ukraine meanwhile ukraine's state security and special forces have held military drills in the capital under the cover of night armored vehicles were seen passing through the streets of kiev armed men were reportedly spotted entering the parliament building but despite this the...
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whistleblower edward snowden receives an award for truth telling while german chancellor angela merkel gets set for a visit to the white house just months after it was revealed that the n.s.a. spied on her more on those stories coming up. and oklahoma was the scene of a horrific botched execution the state's governor called for a review of the incident and the state's usage of lethal injections more on that later in the show. it's wednesday april thirtieth eight pm here in washington d.c. ireland france you're watching our team america. with midterm elections only about six months away pollsters are firing up the telephone lines to get a read on how the american public feels about its elected officials and more importantly how it expects to vote at this point republicans hold the majority of seats in the house of representatives the same is true for democrats in the senate in the november elections republicans are expected to hold on to the house but need to pick up six new seats to win control of the senate now take a look at this a new rasmussen national survey finds that fifty three
whistleblower edward snowden receives an award for truth telling while german chancellor angela merkel gets set for a visit to the white house just months after it was revealed that the n.s.a. spied on her more on those stories coming up. and oklahoma was the scene of a horrific botched execution the state's governor called for a review of the incident and the state's usage of lethal injections more on that later in the show. it's wednesday april thirtieth eight pm here in washington d.c....
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i'll try to merkel heading to washington this friday what do you think is going to happen there is the u.s. going to push for further sanctions. i can hear you really it's something we're having some technical people here voice dr alexander annoyed german m.p. so sorry we couldn't hear you really wanted to hear what you had to say about that . well ukraine is preparing to hold presidential elections like we said in this chaos while iraq has been doing so for the last several years now and today the iraqis were voting again up to four people have been killed in terror attack outside polling stations across the country on wednesday this absolute week's death toll of more than seventy people and it's not really that bad when you bear in mind that more than two hundred people die in unprecedented sectarian violence every week in total almost four thousand lives have been lost since this january two thousand and thirteen it was the deadliest for five years with more than nine thousand people killed all of this following american troops withdrawal in two thousand and eleven by the way take a
i'll try to merkel heading to washington this friday what do you think is going to happen there is the u.s. going to push for further sanctions. i can hear you really it's something we're having some technical people here voice dr alexander annoyed german m.p. so sorry we couldn't hear you really wanted to hear what you had to say about that . well ukraine is preparing to hold presidential elections like we said in this chaos while iraq has been doing so for the last several years now and today...